Proprietary Software Is Often Malware

Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by crazypython on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:10PM (#26006720)

> To reply in the same style: who pays for proprietary software, often can demand changes.

Not if it's incompatible with available alternatives (such as Windows), and you're paying for the privilege of merely having security updates.

Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it? Whereas, people fork and make distros of free software all of the time.

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by ldarby on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:18PM (#26008998)

> Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it?

This happens constantly, but in private. Usually the conversation goes like this:

    customer: opens support ticket, asking how to do some task X
    vendor: sorry, that needs a feature added to the product
    customer: fine, we'll switch to $other_vendor
    vendor: oh look at that, our engineering department scheduled the feature for next release.

Granted though that when dealing with vendors as large as Microsoft that's not going to happen.

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by shadowgovt on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:46AM (#26015526)

At least in the cloud space, the conversation is often more like "We would use you, but X and Y features are business-critical and you do not support them."

They're called "table-stakes features."

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